Perform the following steps to increase database performance on a VxFS file system using Quick I/O.
See the Veritas Editions product documentation.
See the qioadmin
(1) and vxtunefs
(1M) manual pages.
To increase database performance
Verify that the Quick I/O module is loaded.
# modinfo | grep fdd
You can add the following line to the file /etc/system
to load Quick I/O whenever the system reboots.
forceload: drv/fdd
Create a regular VxFS file and preallocate it to the required size, or use the qiomkfile command. The size of this preallocation depends on the size requirement of the database server.
Create and access the database using the file name xxx::cdev:vxfs:
.